Britain really is losing the plot in its obsession with the EU customs union

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The EU's common external tariff has floored Theresa May's attempt at a negotiated Brexit

A “maximum facilitation” (MaxFac) customs arrangement or a “customs partnership”? Alternatively, should Britain reconcile itself to staying in the EU’s “customs union”, or should it simply abandon any kind of negotiated Brexit, as proposed by the likes of Jacob Rees Mogg, and leave the EU with no deal at all?

If Theresa May had won her expected landslide election victory a year ago, or even emerged with just a moderately improved majority, she would not have had to make this increasingly vexatious choice. She could have simply dictated the answer.

Loss of her majority has left the Government politically paralysed, not just on the manner of Brexit but on virtually everything else besides. European...